NPR went on a little crusade to explore school shooting data from a federal report only to discover that most of the ‘shootings’ never happened.
In an amusing story, a government-funded media outlet notorious for its liberal slant found that the overwhelming majority of school shootings listed in a federal report never occurred. The embarrassing blunder involves Department of Education (DOE) figures stating that schools around the U.S. reported an alarming 235 shootings in one year.
Even people who are not plugged into the media would have heard about a number as startling as that true or false.
National Public Radio (NPR) launched an investigation and actually contacted every one of the schools included in the DOE data, which was gathered by its Office for Civil Rights. The figures focus on the 2015-2016 school year and reveal that “nearly 240 schools…reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.”
Or, maybe they didn’t.
Three months later, after every school was contacted by NPR, the stats changed drastically. More than two-thirds of the reported gun incidents never happened, according to the news outlet. “We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports,” the article states. “In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn’t confirm one.
Judicial Watch also notes that the Department of Education has passed the buck on the bad data and has no intention of correcting it. Numbers so bad they make Everytown for Gun Safety which had 29 incidents in the same period, some significant percentage of which are likely rubbish, look reasonable.
The swamp is still very swampy. Trump needs more time. Be a good patriot and give it to him. Keep Democrats out of power or this garbage may never get cleaned out.
No, before you suggest it, I don’t think they’ll scrap the Department of Education. I’d like them to do that. State and local boards are more than capable of wasting our money and we have some hope of influencing them. But I don’t see a dissolution of the Dept. of Ed anytime soon.
Here’s to hoping I’m wrong about that.
